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I'm just wondering, if we have a guide for the Battle Tower, why not Battle Hall?

Battle Arcade and Battle Castle are very closely related to the Battle Tower, and at the Battle Factory you are completeley at the mercy of the rental Pokes. But Battle Hall's a whole different ballgame, as you only use one Pokemon the whole time (albeit you can switch to a different individual of the same species between your ten-streak sessions)?

To the starter of this thread, fantastic ideas. I found something similar on smogon, but I found the same strategy with cressilia for mesprit. Who is...not so hot on defenses as Cressilia is.

If I were to use strategy, no matter how much it's guaranteed to win, should I have max IV's for every stat I bother putting EV's into? Because it'd be such a burden to SR for Cressilia to have a max IV in defense, special defense, HP, AND to have a bold nature. Same for the heatran, for the stats that are most important to it.

Ah. I've got a calm cressilia here with a 26/31 in HP, 16/31 in Defense, and 30/31 in Special Defense. You think this could get the job done as the lead?

Well I know from personal experience that Cresselia is a pain-in-the-*** to SR for, so I'd stick with this one. The Defense IV isn't stellar, but the HP and good, and the Sp. Def is near perfect. Reflect could be used to patch up the Defense, as its nature boosts Sp. Def, or you could run max HP and Defense.

I'll go through with that. Sounds good to me. *checks on IV calculator*
WOW. The funny thing is, coincidentally, these IV's give him 324 in both defensive stats and 439 Hit points on level 100, with 255 HP and 255 Defense EV's. With also no EV's for special defense.

I've got a hax problem. I ran up against an Abomasnow with Sheer cold...well, I tricked it without knowing it had this. And when I sent out Drapion to try to substitute, the choice scarf that abomasnow already had let it attack early, and I was OHKO'd once again by Sheer cold. I'm not trying to break any records, just get the 100 streak so I can get the last trainer card star.

Is there any way to prepare for situations such as that? I know subsitute blocks OHKO's...but when the opponent has been tricked into holding a choice scarf, I've got no chance against the hax.

From my experience; using Latias/Registeel/Salamence got me an 100 streak on my second try. With a Cressilia/Drapion/Garchomp team, it took me FOREVER to get 75 wins.
Probably because of Registeel's great defenses to begin with, but using curse and amnesia is way more consistent than acupressure.

We can't judge unless we know the moves, EV's, IV's, Natures, etc. Also this belongs in the wrong thread, in fact it should not be in your own thread either till you figure out the specifics. Anyways it probably isn't that good since you have two steel types.

This thread is pretty useful! Gave me a few ideas. I haven't considered a slow strategy such as ScarfTrick but it seems to be the best strategy for the Battle Tower.
Also I dunno if I'm the only one but I will probably not look at the database which lists all the Pokémon you will encounter because it kinda feels like cheating I feel like I want to find out what Pokémon I will encounter the hard way.